Mediocre at best

Rating: 5/10 (12 May 2009)

This is pretty much your average action movie. The plot appears to be original and interesting for a Hollywood movie at first, but it is in fact a combination of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go) and the Matrix trilogy. I'm not sure whether the writers were even trying to put an original twist to this script. The only difference this movie has to those two titles combined is the ending (which I won't reveal, but it is cheesy).
The action sequences are good, but they slacked a bit on creating an interesting futuristic world. Most of the futuristic cars are just black Cadillacs or Chryslers, not to mention that the advertisement in this production is huge. Any of the brands featured in the movie display huge logos, which stay on screen for around twenty seconds. Nice and subtle.
The last paragraph is nothing more than picking at some minor flaws; what really ruined the experience for me was the (nonexistent) character development. One moment Scarlett Johansson is a happy little vegetable and the next she is jumping on the back of moving lorrys and shooting people in the hand with nail-guns.
5/10, American action movie for the simpleton, 4 points because it had Scarlett Johansson dressed in a tight suit.